A17410:244
The rules of a holy life. Or A treatise containing the holy order of…
The rules of a holy life. Or A treatise containing the holy order of our lives, prescribed in the Scripture concerning our carriage: towards God, towards men, towards our selves. With general rules of preparation, that concern either the helps, or the manner of a holy conversation. By N. Bifield preacher of Gods Word at Isleworth in Middlesex.The rules of a holy life. Or A treatise containing the holy order of our liues, prescribed in the Scripture concerning our carriage: towards God, towards men, towards our selues. With generall rules of preparation, that concerne either the helps, or the maner of a holy conuersation. By N. Bifield preacher of Gods Word at Isleworth in Middlesex.
London: printed by George for Ralph Rounthwaite, 1619
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9 If we would be preserved in the love of God, we must labour to attain to the ability to rejoice in God, and delight our selves in God. A wife that would ⟨p. 127⟩increase her love to her husband, must strive to solace her self often with her husband, and to form in her heart a special delight in him: So must we do to God. This is miserably neglected, and yet exceeding necessary: Nor is it an ordinary joy we should take in God, but we should joy in him, first, with all our hearts: 2. not for a time, but always, every day; nor with common, but with exceeding joys, Phi. 4. 4. Ps. 37. 4. & 68. •, 4. & 105. 3.1 Now that this point may be the better understood, I will consider of two things: first, ⟨p. 128⟩what it is to delight and •oy in God: secondly, what we should do that might delight, and take pleasure in God.
9 If we would be preserued in the loue of God, wee must labour to attaine to the ability to reioyce in God, and delight our selues in God. A wife that would ⟨p. 127⟩increase her loue to her husband, must striue to solace her selfe often with her husband, and to forme in her heart a speciall delight in him: So must wee doe to God. This is miserably neglected, and yet exceeding necessary: Nor is it an ordinary ioy we should take in God, but we should ioy in him, first, with all our hearts: 2. not for a time, but alwaies, euery day; nor with cōmon, but with exceeding ioyes, Phi. 4. 4. Ps. 37. 4. & 68. •, 4. & 105. 3.1 Now that this point may be the better vnderstood, I will consider of two things: first, ⟨p. 128⟩